Customizing the BMS Login Screen - IntegratedBreedingPlatform/Documentation GitHub Wiki

The BMS offers the ability to customize the login screen in several ways:

Set whether or not the login screen offers a link for users to create their own BMS accounts
Add a short text message
Add a logo or other image.

Instructions for each customization are provided below.

To set whether or not the account creation link appears:

go to the folder where tomcat is installed
go to \webapps\ibpworkbench\WEB-INF
open classes\workbench.properties
set the property workbench.enable.create.account to true or false for enabling or disabling the account creation link

To add custom text:

go to the folder where tomcat is installed
go to \webapps\ibpworkbench\WEB-INF
open _classes\workbench.properties _
Update the value of the property footer.message to change the message in the notification area

To add a custom logo:

go to the folder where tomcat is installed
go to \webapps\ibpworkbench\WEB-INF
place the logo file in static\images\institute; this file must be named logo.png (the file name is case-sensitive)
Add the institute logo path to the workbench.properties file: institute.logo.path=/static/images/institute/logo.png
Restart Tomcat